On 11 Mar 2010, I am honored to co-present Improving Data Integration Performance with expressor software's ( Web - @expressor ) Director of Field Engineering Michael Ruland. Working with Michael the past few weeks has been a lot of fun and I hope that Read More...

Introduction I built a SQL Server 2008 Maintenance Plan and included a Maintenance Cleanup Task. For those who don't work with this stuff every day, Maintenance Plans are actually SSIS packages. The short version of a long story is: I couldn't execute Read More...

Thanks to the smart people at Microsoft Research you can now have your blog posts and web pages translated into several languages - how cool! Andrew Duthie - aka .Net DevHammer - posted about this new Live functionality on his blog : This is a pretty Read More...

Buck Woody has a great series going on SQL Server ManagementStudio Standard Reports . The SQL Server team did a great job developing these insightful and intuitive reports. I often show them to customers and during presentations and the response is always Read More...

There was a pretty big announcement from Microsoft yesterday: Microsoft Makes Strategic Changes in Technology and Business Practices to Expand Interoperability . To quote Steve Ballmer: Number one, we're committing to ensure open connections for our high Read More...

Microsoft announces the release of Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Foundation Server Power Tools ! From the website: Team Foundation Server Power Tools includes the following tools: Team Foundation Power Tool command-line tool (TFPT.EXE) Build Notification Read More...

The SQL Server PSS group announces the release of RML Utilities . From the blog post: The Microsoft SQL Server support team uses several internally-written utilities to make it easier to work on a typical customer support case. These utilities may also Read More...